O'Donnell dropped from tea party rally

Former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell will not speak at a tea party event featuring former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Indianola, Iowa, this weekend, an organizer told Washington Wire. ... . Tea Party of America’s cofounder, Charlie Gruschow, said the group withdrew Ms. O’Donnell’s [invitation] after receiving numerous “emails from a lot of tea party folks that were very disappointed that she would be speaking.”

“We decided not to have her speak,” Mr. Gruschow said. “We felt it was in the best interest of the movement.”

More than any other candidate last year, O'Donnell has come to represent the excesses of the tea party movement, and the extent to which Republican primary voters undercut their own party's chances of taking the Senate. That - and "I'm not a witch" - are not really the best branding for a Labor Day tea party rally.